• Ph.D., Industrial Engineering and Management, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, 1976
• M.S., Industrial and System Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1971

Registered Professional Engineer, Texas Board of Professional Engineers (1978 - Present).

• Supply Chain Management
• E-Commerce
• Manufacturing Processes
• Project Management
• Management Information Systems
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

• Optimal Routing of Large Scale Marine Seismic Mapping Operations, Ph.D. Dissertation, School of Industrial Engineering and Management, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, July, 1976.


• Modular System Analysis And Design For Utility Simulation Of Constant Speed, Discretely Spaced, Recirculating Conveyor Systems, Palmer Terrell and Thomas Chen, National Science Foundation Grant GK-43583, May 1977.
 
• Applications of Artificial Intelligence to an Off-Line Instruction System, Volume I, NASA/JSC Contract F19628-86-C-001 T-3589M, MITRE Report, Houston, Texas, September, 1986.
 
• Applications of Artificial Intelligence to an Off-Line Instruction System, Volume II, NASA/JSC Contract F19628-86-C-001 T-3589M, MITRE Report, Houston, Texas, September, 1986.
 
• Artificial Intelligent and Expert System, Institute of Information Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, August, 1992.
 
• Wireless Communications Network, Technology and Applications, Tjing Ling Institute of Industrial Research and Automation, Taipei, Taiwan, March, 1998.

• UH-Academy Project: Development of Inventory Replenishment Schedule, and Transportation Synchronization Decision-Making Tools for Distribution Center and Retail Stores

• eBusiness-based Supply Chain Information Exchange System

• "Internet Enabled Manufacturing Control System", Applied Manufacturing Conference, San Antonio, Texas, April, 2002.
• "eBusiness Solution for Supply Chain Management", IIE Houston Charter Monthly Meeting, Houston, Texas, September, 2002.

• Manufacturing Processes
• Computing for Engineers
• Computing Applications in I.E.
• Industrial Cost Systems

• "Method for Configurable Intelligent-Agent-Based Wireless Communication System", US Patent: 6,076,099 (granted on 6/13/2000) and Taiwan Patent: 88117547 (granted on 6/16/2001).
• "Reconfigurable Parallel-DSP-Based Digital Radio Modem", Taiwan Patent: 88117546 (granted on 5/28/2001). INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

• Java Technology: J2EE, J2SE, J2ME, EJB, RMI, Jini, Java Message Service (JMS), Servlet, JSP, JDBC, Java Embedded Server (JES), JavaScript


• Application Server: BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, JBoss, JRun
 
• Web Server: MS Internet Information System, Apache, Tomcat, Resin
 
• Web Programming Tools: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, Microsoft FrontPage
 
• Integrated Development Environment (IDE): MS C/C++, PowerBuilder, Sun Microsystems Forte, IBM VisualAge, Metroworks CodeWarrior
 
• Database Systems: Oracle, Sybase, DB2, Open ODB, UniSQL, Ingress, MS SQL Server, mySQL, SAP R/3, Dbase V, FoxPro
 
• Network Protocols: Oracle SQL*Net, TCP/IP, RPC, HTTP, PPP, Socket
 
• Wireless Communication Protocols: CDPD, CDMA, GSM, SMS, GPRS, WML/WAP, Bluetooth,GPS, Obcomm Satellite Network
 
• Wireless Communication Tools: Nokia WAP Gateway, Phone.com WAP Gateway, Sun Microsystems Wireless Tool Kit and J2ME (KVM, CLDC, MIDP)
 
• Other Languages: HTML, XML, Perl, Cold Fusion, C/C++, Visual Basic, Cobol, Fortran (77, 90), PL/I, Ada, Smalltalk, MATHLAB, Arena Simulation Tool, SIMSCRIPT II.5 Simulation Software
 
• Enterprise Resource Planning: SAP ABAP/4, SAP FICO, SAP MM, SAP ITS


• Operating Systems: Unix, Solaris, MVS, VAX/VMS, MacOS, Palm OS, Windows (98, NT, 2000, XP, CE)